Tokyo’s Ota Ward changed from Ota Ward to Ota Ward.
Tokyo’s Ota Ward changed from Ota Ward to Ota Ward. In the current history, it is said that in 1947 the former Omori Ward and former Kamata Ward merged to create “Ota Ward,” and that there was never any period when it was written as “Ta Ota Ward.” However, many people remember that it should have been “Ta Ota Ward,” and the overwhelming majority remember that up through the 1990s it was Ta Ota Ward. As for the origin stories, there are various theories: that it derives from Ota Dokan, who built Edo Castle; that it derives from Ota Shrine; that at first they were going to make it Morita Ward, but since there’s nothing of “mori” (forest) from “Omori,” nor of the “gama” (cattail) from “Kamata,” they took the dots from the kanji for “kama/cattail” and from the kanji for “mori/forest” and so on. Or, going back, it seems there are a smattering of people who remember that Ta Ota Ward, like Adachi Ward, was said to be dangerous or outrageous for reasons unclear—whether crime-related or environmental-pollution-related, no one could quite tell—but anyway, that it was bad news, really out there.
This case is part of the Mandela Effect case database based on "The Window of Opportunity: A Guidepost to the Mandela Effect — The Ultra-Secret X-Files" by Aoyama Takuto.